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Simply will not stop crashing. I use Linux, I have done nothing to my computer or settings to cause this. It is being caused by something in the update. Does anyone know… (funda kabanzi)

Simply will not stop crashing. I use Linux, I have done nothing to my computer or settings to cause this. It is being caused by something in the update. Does anyone know if they are going to fix this or do i have to go back to that stupid chrome? I am disabled and live on my computer - I use it about 18 hours a day and the crashes are crazy. Ctashes on every website, no rhyme or reason to it. Can anyone tell me if this is going to be fixed?

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When I develop web apps, I want to see adding and removing CSS classes in real time, like Chrome devtools do.
I use tailwind CSS heavily (https://tailwindcss.com/) which … (funda kabanzi)

When I develop web apps, I want to see adding and removing CSS classes in real time, like Chrome devtools do.

I use tailwind CSS heavily (https://tailwindcss.com/) which relies on adding CSS classes to change appearance. The same applies to bootstrap 4 styles.

Chrome devtools autoloads the CSS classes from tailwind, and shows updates to the page as I type. To try this out:

1. go to https://tailwindcss.com/ in chrome/chromium
2. open devtools (f12)
3. switch to the "Elements" tab
4. use the element picker to select the "Get Started" button
5. in the right hand panel, select the ".cls" icon
6. in the box that says "Add new class", type "text-"
7. notice the dropdown and if you change the value (e.g. to text-blue-500) the page updates

In firefox devtools with the equivalent ".cls" feature:

the classes do not auto-populate

changes are not shown until the enter key is pressed.

For me personally this is the only feature I use chrome for. Firefox completely satisfies me for all other usage.

Is this something that can be implemented? I have reasonable software development skills so would be willing to assist with this change.

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I am trying to remove the some default search engines from Firefox. I can remove them in settings yet if I type @ then a number of search engines I don't want including B… (funda kabanzi)

I am trying to remove the some default search engines from Firefox. I can remove them in settings yet if I type @ then a number of search engines I don't want including Bing Google and Amazon are still there. I think I have found the json that makes them visible:

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How does DNS over HTTPS modes define usage of hosts file?
Firefox: 69.0, OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3
I noticed that when I enable DNS over HTTPS ("network.trr.mode" set to 2 - us… (funda kabanzi)

How does DNS over HTTPS modes define usage of hosts file?

Firefox: 69.0, OS: Ubuntu 18.04.3

I noticed that when I enable DNS over HTTPS ("network.trr.mode" set to 2 - use DoH, fall back to DNS), *and* hostname is defined in hosts file (/etc/hosts), Firefox usage of hosts file is inconsistent and hard to predict.

If IPs defined in hosts file and obtained via DNS request differ, corresponding site/resources behaves erratically, as if Firefox chooses at random, which page components' DNS address should be resolved via hosts, and which via DoH.

I had to disable DoH for that reason.

It is possible to set up DoH, so that it used hosts records, if present, and used DNS in all other cases?

I'm using NoScript to block all Javascript by default and sometimes I want to verify that blocking works by looking at the console (F12) output.

Normally, when I visit a website and NoScript blocks all Javascript ressources, the console (F12) should show me error messages that scripts failed to load.

However, on some sites (e.g. stackoverflow.com), when I open the console it is completely empty (no output at all) - although Javascript apparently has been blocked (NoScript tells me that it has blocked all scripts and stackoverflow.com displays that "stackoverflow is best viewed with Javascript enabled").

Interestingly, when I leave the console open and refresh that page, all the expected error messages about failed scripts are suddenly displayed in the console.

So my questions are:
1) what could be the reason that the expected error messages are only displayed when I refresh the page?
2) could this mean that at the time the console is empty, some scripts are executed? Although NoScript tells me it has blocked all of them and the main site apparently was loaded without Javascript?

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I opened up around 50 tabs in a single firefox Private Window on Linux and all was good and fast, I then opened another URL in a new tab, which asked me to Stop or Wait… (funda kabanzi)

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I opened up around 50 tabs in a single firefox Private Window on Linux and all was good and fast, I then opened another URL in a new tab, which asked me to Stop or Wait for unresponsive script running, where I chose to Stop. Then it started behaving abnormally; I was only able to do the following:

1 scroll on the tab using either middle mouse button or [Up] [Down] key on keyboard jfie
2 right click the tab content to open up right-click menu,
3 hover over the icons and change their background color like Homepage, Refresh, Page Actions, Show sidebars, as well as display their lables;

but I was not able to
$ trigger the proper response from above buttons, or
$ switch to another tab
$ close or create any tab

I noticed in journalctl logs around the time frame this happend, which showed the following:

NOTE that I did not open any gedit intentionally during that time window.
So far, I have not closed the unresponsive window, in hope that I would be able to restore those tabs. But I am not sure where to start. The $HOME/.mozilla/firefox director is about 100MB.

Could anyone help? I am willing to provide any more information and I am willing to invest my time on this.

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Min and max buttons are not available on extensions windows, beside that those windows are always on top (only of Firefox itself, not in other windows), so I can not cont… (funda kabanzi)

Min and max buttons are not available on extensions windows, beside that those windows are always on top (only of Firefox itself, not in other windows), so I can not continue using Firefox when one window is open. My specific case is that I need to use "Katalon recorder" extension, but i can't, since I need to move the windows around to record my moves on any page, which makes it really annoying. Is there any workaround for this?? (I am on linux deepin 15.11 and Firefox nightly 71.0a1 (2019-09-09))

when I launch ff it just hangs forever showing white screen
I have to kill that last tab before ff snaps into action ... it make no matter what was
that last active tab prior to killing ff on launch it repeatedly shows just white screen

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"Expect-CT is a new security header which is, at the moment, only supported by Chrome and Opera browsers. It allows a website to instruct the browser to reject any certif… (funda kabanzi)

"Expect-CT is a new security header which is, at the moment, only supported by Chrome and Opera browsers. It allows a website to instruct the browser to reject any certificate not found in Certificate Transparency, a read-only public log of certificates which can be audited. Because Expect-CT is an HTTP header, it is a trust-on-first-use protocol that relies on long-term caching to ensure security. While Expect-CT does not prevent a compromised Certificate Authority from issuing a fake certificate, it does limit the damage by forcing the addition of the certificate to the log. The domain owner can then report the fake certificate and attempt to get it revoked." [Protonmail]

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I'm on a contract with 4G/5G connection speed but with very limited data usage allowance. Many websites choose to play HD media because of the very fast connection, but t… (funda kabanzi)

I'm on a contract with 4G/5G connection speed but with very limited data usage allowance. Many websites choose to play HD media because of the very fast connection, but this is terrible for my plan. I want a setting to tell Firefox to always save as much bandwidth as possible and always choose lowest possible quality for every media. Or at the very least not load videos as long as I'm trying to change the automatically pre-determined video quality. With FF69 clicking on a video on Youtube will start loading and playing HD quality and thus simply wasting precious bandwidth.

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I am using firefox from Ubuntu 18.04. the Firefox version is 69.
This morning the browser suddenly crashed and when i opened the browser again, it asked me to login to t… (funda kabanzi)

I am using firefox from Ubuntu 18.04. the Firefox version is 69.
This morning the browser suddenly crashed and when i opened the browser again, it asked me to login to the account. After login i found that all the passwords are gone. How can i restore those passwords? Is there any versioned database so that i can restore?

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When I start typing the few letters of a certain URL I always get the same (wrong) suggestion which is no longer valid because the URL changed. The old url was jira.nex.l… (funda kabanzi)

When I start typing the few letters of a certain URL I always get the same (wrong) suggestion which is no longer valid because the URL changed. The old url was jira.nex.lan:8080. The new url is jira.nex.lan (port 80). I like being able to just type in "jira" and hit enter. This works great with chrome where I can delete predictions and it actually works. I already tried everything for firefox and nothing works:

- Changed the URL for my bookmark from jira.nex.lan:8080 to jira.nex.lan. There are no bookmarks with the old url.

- Press the down arrow button and select the prediction and press shift-delete or just delete. This doesn't work because it's the first prediction. Even if I arrow down and then back up to it, pressing shift-delete or delete just deletes the text from the address bar. The prediction always comes back next time. I went through the list and made sure to delete anything below the top that contained the url.

After following all of these steps, when I type "jira" and hit enter, it still always goes to jira.nex.lan:8080. The only thing I can think of is deleting the entire .mozilla folder, which I expect would work, but it would wipe out all of my customization, which is not OK.